Tagged: Obama and Africa

BY LISA FRENCH The re-election of President Obama was not greeted with the same excitement and the massive celebrations that followed his historic election four years ago, although what was falsely believed to be......

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In a continent-wide survey, The African’s contributors Ruth Aine Tindyebwa, Amadou Ba and Peter Mahundi put this question to Africans from all walks of life: What, specifically, do you think President Obama should do...

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For a while, the upheavals of the world ground to a halt to give its full meaning to the historic inauguration of the Democratic candidate elected president of the United States. The bombs stopped......

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BY USMAN MAMA “This election is not about me; it’s about you,” then-presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama repeatedly said during the 2008 presidential election campaign. By “you,” the now president of the United States......

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BY DEDE YI-FEE Until Sen. Barack Obama humbly and emotionally told a black congregation gathered in March 2007 at the historic Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama for a special service commemorating the......

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In light of President George W. Bush’s positive legacy to Africa, which was unexpected of a (white) Republican president with no emotional ties to Africa, we can expect U.S. positive involvement in Africa to......

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BY DEDE YI-FEE Sub-Saharan Africans from Djibouti to South Africa via Gabon, Togo and Kenya, have celebrated Obama’s election with mega parties, dances and other festive events. Most of them thanked God (or......